What If We Kissed Under the Chihuly
Mar. 8th, 2026 03:58 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
scalziwhatever_feedThis particular one is found at the San Antonio Public Library, and it’s a doozy. They tell me it’s disassembled every couple of years in order to clean it. I could never do that job. I would break everything and have to live in shame for the rest of my days.
In other news, today’s Pop Madness convention at the library was lovely. Martha Wells and I had a full room for our conversation, and my signing line went on for a while (thank you to everyone who stuck it out). Plus I ate some absolutely amazing empanadas. It was a good day.
— JS
Keep mending broken lines
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sovay
that wasn't a no
Mar. 7th, 2026 09:07 pmmusesfoolOur next in-office day is in late April, and I floated the idea of maybe bringing in baked goods, so I'm already considering what recipe I might choose to make, since I can experiment.
Today, I made these orange shortbread cookies and they're good, though I would zest another orange (I did 2 this time) if I make them again. Also I didn't sift the flour and instead of rolling out the dough and using cookie cutters, I rolled it into a log and just sliced them (after chilling), since they are just for me so there was no need to get fancy.
I also planned to caramelize onions overnight in the slow cooker, but then I ended up engrossed in F.D. Signifier's Tyler Perry video (which is FOUR HOURS long - I have one hour left but I'm taking a break to watch the WBC) and didn't end up doing the slicing I need to do, so I figure I'll do it in the morning, let them slow cook for most of the day, and then make French onion pasta for dinner. Anyway, I have never seen a Tyler Perry movie or show, but F.D. Signifier's videos are always worth watching.
So yeah, I've been sort of paying attention to the WBC and why is the "S" in USA like a strip of curly bacon on the Team USA jersey??? Once I saw it I couldn't unsee it. Also so many of these unis could be cool and yet so many of them are just meh. Design fail, Nike! Come on! Also, I might be rooting for the DR since Juan Soto is on that team; if Lindor were in it, I'd probably be rooting for Puerto Rico. Though of course I was pleased for Clay Holmes just now, and will be interested to see Nolan McLean pitch.
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We Welcome a Shadow
Mar. 7th, 2026 07:51 pmjesse_the_kA dozen days ago we brought home Shadow from Underdog Pet Rescue (where we found Bella ten years ago).
Shadow’s had a hard life: not only was he abandoned by his family to live in the street, he got heartworm. Underdog has been treating him, and we have to continue to enforce rest for another 5 weeks. We must walk him on leash even for quick potty trips in the back yard.
He's a skinny minnie — around 40 pounds. He's got super-sleek short shiny black fur — unlike our previous dogs, he's single-coated. He's got maybe 47 white hairs at various spots around his body. There’s a clumpy stripe of white on his chest, but he hasn’t felt comfortable enough to show us his belly yet. Between his ears he’s got the wide head of a pitty, but his nose is long and thin.
We're looking forward to buoying Shadow with the love he needs, and grateful that retirement offers the time. For the first few days his muscles were always tense, and when we moved a hand anywhere within ten feet he'd flinch. He's beginning to unclench, and we've even seen his tail wag a couple times. While we're all bored without romping and long walks, it's a good time to shower him with stinky treats for learning his name and beginning to trust us. He walks pretty well on lead and already knows leave it, ignoring a treat sitting in the middle of my flat palm 6 inches from his nose.
His triangular ears have floppy tips — the left one is always down. His back has two shaved bare squares where the vets injected the second and third doses of arsenic to kill the heartworm parasites. His soulful eyes were so tight in the first week we saw nothing but deep brown iris. Today when Shadow and I were hiding from The Evil Vacuum Cleaner in my bedroom, I finally saw some white in his gaze.
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ADHD with the knockout 🎉
Mar. 7th, 2026 07:14 pmjadelennoxI was writing up a navel-gazing post about grief (tl;dr turned out I think "oh MM would like that!" more often than I would have suspected) and it somehow spiraled into how I could make beautiful and accessible no-Javascript footnotes CSS given the Dreamwidth CSS restrictions. This resulted in me, among other things, reading the DW codebase to see all the CSS restrictions, and then finally after a couple of hours getting my perfect CSS, even though it's completely useless because it will only work when reading in my journal style.
(ETA: That's only because I'm being a perfectionist about placement for the purposes of this exercise, and DW doesn't allow absolute positioning in inline HTML.)
(Also even making this post resulted in me reading the code for Perl's Text::Markdown since I couldn't remember which code block syntax it used.
Hyperfixation FTW!
( CSS, FWIW )
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Mar. 8th, 2026 12:32 ambeccaelizabeththings I actually read go where I can reach
and things I inherited can go behind everything in the back corner.
McGuire, Huff, Bujold, Cherryh and Duane are now on the nice visible shelves next to me.
Other stuff got sort of stirred around and I am not especially confident of finding it again later, so this is a work in progress.
But somehow the book stirring process has made a space on the shelves suitable for putting plural books in.
Which basically never happens.
I am puzzled yet pleased.
Global Women's General Strike
Mar. 7th, 2026 07:14 pmsathari posting in thisfinecrewDaily Check In.
Mar. 7th, 2026 06:16 pmadafrog posting in fandom_checkinHow are you doing?
I am okay
11 (57.9%)
I am not okay, but don't need help right now
8 (42.1%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans are you living with?
I am living single
9 (47.4%)
One other person
8 (42.1%)
More than one other person
2 (10.5%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Still talking about that emotional support stuffed animal fb group
Mar. 7th, 2026 02:42 pmcupcake_gothAn interesting discussion that’s happened in the group is about microchipping your support plushie. On the one hand, putting an Apple air tag in Clovis would soothe some of my ever-present mild anxiety when he travels with me. On the other hand, that would involve opening a seam and carefully sewing it closed and in NO WAY do I feel comfortable doing that.
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Mar. 7th, 2026 09:12 pmbeccaelizabethThe laundry bags/baskets are still full. They started full and they are still full. That is not how geometry is supposed to work.
The newer bag is the gigantic ikea one and it is full even though previously the smaller one was just kind of overfull a bit. Or apparently a lot.
Expanding laundry.
I have also been listening to more Dalek Universe. I think I would like them better if I wasn't tired. But they are quite good.
It is so weird sometimes to realise how long it has been since the TV canon Big Finish is picking up and running with. I mean they are still doing 4th Doctor adventures. But even these 10th Doctor ones are featuring someone from 16 years ago. Entire human beings got invented and grew up since he started.
About twenty years since Torchwood. Seventeenish since Ianto died.
I saw https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddnn2rn0v7o Ianto's Shrine is scheduled to come down soon due to the wood and iron under all the pictures and that being all wore out.
I acknowledge that the Shrine existing in the first place is a bit nuts, but it's a cool sort, where we decided a story mattered enough to keep passing it along.
There's a petition https://www.change.org/p/save-ianto-s-shrine but I kind of don't see what else they're going to do about it.
Cool if they could though.
I'd still like to go and see it but since I haven't been more than a half hour walk away from my flat since 2020 that is a bit Maybe I Personally Could Visit The Moon. Only a bit though, it's still there and only taxis and trains away, I'd just have to be a different me to get there.
Like Flux next weekend https://seanharry.com/home/flux/
that looks brilliant and exactly the sort of thing I liked to do when I liked to do things.
My plans for this month instead involve attempting to get my hair cut again. Which involves several challenging parts. But has been achievable goals.
I am a bit frustrated by how small I shrank everything. Tricky to get growing again though.
I shall persevere.
Also, listen more Doctor Who and finish the drying on this laundry.
a bunch of stuff
Mar. 7th, 2026 04:03 pmviridian5Even with higher temperatures and a lot of rain, we still have some mounds of the stuff, but parking is getting easier to find.
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It's Irish soda bread season in NY. The Stop & Shop version, heretically, didn't have caraway seeds, but Trader Joe's did, even if I cringe at them calling theirs the Blarney Scone.
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I had my annual eye exam last week, something especially important for someone with Chiari, which means they're very concerned with how my retinas are doing. For some reason, the pupil of my left eye stayed dilated hours longer than my right. They can't have put that much more dilating fluid in my left eye. My youngest niece saw it when I picked her up from college and was very concerned for me.
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I received a notice from Kia of a recall for my Forte. It said they first sent a notice for it to the original owner in 2021 but nothing was done. So, I got this voluntary emissions and transmission recall done as well as two anti-theft things for free. The Kia service people seemed decent and competent, unlike all of the Hyundai people I used to deal with.
My dad is freed!
Mar. 7th, 2026 10:35 pmcimoreneWax had the shift that lastd until 7 pm yesterday, and she had to work today and was too tired to go grocery shopping, so tomorrow will be ruined too by knowing we have to leave the house. Tristana continues to complain any time I am with Sipuli up until about 4 pm. I am trying out alternate hours.
Now that it's been above freezing for a week, it's even above 15° in the coldest room in the house, and there have been sunbeams daily. I've swept under all kinds of furniture that we usually don't, and put away Mt. Laundry that has been covering the office daybed all winter, and scrubbed the kitchen cabinet doors, and checked on the bunny four or five times each day.
He seems to be doing well as a lone bunny, but I can't help being concerned about him. Tristana greets him, but they've never figured out how to play together like she did with Rowan. I keep trying to rearrange his bunny furniture to spark his interest and giving him enrichment boxes (a box that teabags come in filled with hay with some dried fruit and a used dry decaf teabag hidden in it: he's crazy for teabags). We ordered him one of those hay cubes, but it hasn't arrived yet. They haven't had one of those in a few years (we've mostly bought a series of hay tunnels more recently).
For Sale: Nintendo Switch games + TTRPG books
Mar. 7th, 2026 03:46 pmsettiaiFirst, I have a few Nintendo Switch games for sale:
Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)
And then a few TTRPGs that were Christmas presents so they're still in basically like new shape:
Candela Obscura Core Rulebook (example on Amazon)
Daggerheart Core Set (example on Amazon)
If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way.
For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).
The Pitt Fic: Just a Joke (Abbot/Robby, PG-13)
Mar. 7th, 2026 12:08 pmalethiaJust a Joke (3017 words) by Alethia
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Characters: Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Additional Tags: Season/Series 02, Episode Related, Developing Relationship, Getting Together, First Kiss, let's talk about those jokes
Summary:
"What's this I hear about nude sunrise yoga?" Jack drawled. "Tell me more about these fantasies you have about me, Robby."
Robby shook his head once, like he didn't know what conversation they were having. Good. "It was a joke," Robby said, tone saying this was obvious. "The kid's miserable living with Santos. I wanted him to feel like he'd be helping me out."
"That just so happened to involve a very specific image of me," Jack pressed.
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Mar. 7th, 2026 02:55 pmwaterswordGood gravy, this semester is tough. I'm juggling a million different things and keeping my head above water, but only just. Admittedly, a number of things I am juggling are not work things (birthday trip planning! proof of Canadian-ness! community service!) and everything will get 100% easier when it is above 50° every day and the world isn't pitch black at 6pm, but until that time is upon us, I am apparently going to be surviving on pizza and hummus.
My internet, which is allegedly FIOS, is periodically deciding that it does not want to be an internet, it wants to be a lumberjack, and rebooting the router does not do a whole lot. This is kind of a problem given that I work from home and build things on the internet. I feel like I'm back in 1998 on dial-up. I spent thirty minutes fighting the phone tree and then the customer service agent tried to sell me a new router and a new plan, which: no. I want the thing I am already paying for to work!
Implementing a shared zookeeper routine is working out super well so far; I get to play with a friend's kid so she can concentrate on chores and she keeps me from becoming one with the couch, which is my true desire.
MDZS, the Brindlewood Version
Mar. 7th, 2026 11:28 amelfOr rather, based on one small detail of MDZS/The Untamed, using a modern-AU setting: Investigating the death of Lan Furen. (Adventure title: Lost in the Clouds. Complexity 7. Would be 6, but the death is 30-ish years old, so they're working with some difficulty.)
Brindlewood Bay has a different approach: Instead of "GM decides on the details of the murder and sets a bunch of clues that the players have to find and figure out," the GM sets the location, a list of suspects, a list of clues - and the players then come up with their own idea of who did what. Then they roll. If they roll high enough, they were correct and have solved the murder. (If they roll almost high enough, they were correct but now there is a complication - the murderer is getting away, or attacks them, or someone is in danger because of what they've revealed, etc.)
I don't have to decide what happened to Lan Furen to have it as the base of a murder mystery here. I just have to figure out who might've been involved, invent some clues, and throw them at the players.
( It's been more difficult than I thought. )
Prompt: Cloud Recesses
Mar. 7th, 2026 06:43 pmgaladhir posting in chenqing_100Author: Galadhir
Word Count/Drabble Type: 100 words
Character(s)/Ship(s): Lan Xichen/Jin Guangyao (remembered)
Rating/Warnings: None
Summary: Lan Xichen stands at the doorway of his seclusion and muses about the sunrise in Cloud Recesses
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Where there are no shadows one may attain a kind of snow blindness. Light, in its perfection, robs the eyes of sight, even as the tomb, closing, blots out all hopes, thoughts and dreams.
Early morning. I stand by my half open door and look out at the sunrise. There, at the horizon, night and day are co-mingled in glory. A burst of gold more splendid than any Jin-created tower. A colourless dew-drop coruscates upon the water-weighted pine. I step forward, exaltation kindling in my heart.
And then the clouds return.
In mist too there is a kind of blindness.
[ SECRET POST #7001 ]
Mar. 7th, 2026 01:36 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #7001 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1000.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #1001 ]
Mar. 7th, 2026 01:32 pmcase posting in fandomsecretsThe first secret from this batch will be posted on March 14th.
| RULES: 1. One secret link per comment. 2. 750x750 px or smaller. 3. Link directly to the image. More details on how to send a secret in! Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is. Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment! |
Registration is open for VidUKon 2026
Mar. 7th, 2026 07:58 pmcondnsdmlk posting in vidukon_cardiffRegistration is now open for VidUKon 2026! Join us 5-7 June in both Birmingham and online for vidshows, panels and socialising. Friday programming will begin in the afternoon. As in previous years, Thursday evening will include some online-only pre-con programming to kick things off.
In-person attendance this year is £50 (same as last year!); virtual attendance also remains unchanged at £20. Optional add-ons this year are a collectable coaster (£2) featuring this year's VidUKon artwork and the physical conbook (£5).
One big change we're making this year is that we will no longer offer a DVD case with USB key as an add-on. This is due to the increasing difficulty in sourcing and assembling DVD cases each year. We know this was a nice-to-have collector's option so we will make artwork for the DVD cover available after the con should attendees wish to print out and assemble their own DVD case. Premieres will also be available as a download.
To register for this year's con, you'll need to log in or create an account at the VidUKon website. This year we're offering payment directly through the website via Paypal. There's also an option to pay using a credit/debit card (also processed by Paypal). Strangely, vendor fees for card transactions are considerably lower than for Paypal transactions, so if you prefer paying by card, please do!
We hope the registration process goes smoothly for everyone, but should you run into any issues while registering, please get in touch with concom. We keep an eye on the VidUKon channel in the Vidding Discord and you are also welcome to DM us. Alternatively, you can email us at vidukon@gmail.com or respond to this post.
The deadline to register for in-person attendance is 30 April. Online registration will remain open until 4 June, but if you'd like add-ons (conbook + coasters) you'll need to register by 15 May.
Sponsorship/donation
VidUKon has a small pot built up, so a couple of fee waivers are possible for those who would like to attend the con but who are unable to afford the membership cost. If you would like to give a bit extra to help sponsor attendance for someone else and/or support the con, you can do so during registration.
If you'd like to attend the con but are unable to afford the membership cost, please get in touch with us at vidukon@gmail.com to find out more about this. (You do not need to disclose anything about your personal circumstances in order to qualify).
Equally, if folks would like to pay registration for friends, they can do so using this option. Just flag it to the con email so that we can double-check details and register the extra attendees.
Important dates
19 April – deadline to submit to Vidder’s Choice, Premieres and the themed submissions show
30 April – deadline to register for in-person attendance
15 May – deadline to register for online attendance + add-ons (conbook; coasters)
4 June – deadline to register for online attendance only
5-7 June – VidUKon \o/
We hope to see you at this year’s con!
Fannish options & enthusiasms | March 2026
Mar. 7th, 2026 09:56 ambrightknightieHere are some recent fannish things I've happened to see and would like to share!
Spotlight: As a gift, I received a "Collectible Crime Classics" copy of The Benson Murder Case (1926) by S.S. Van Dine. I'd never heard of the author and barely of his detective, Philo Vance, though they'd apparently been tremendously popular and influential in their day (12 novels, dozens of radio serials and movies). So I settled in to enjoy the first in this "classic" series... and soon discovered why I was not familiar and why no one is remaking these today. ( Read more... )
Ficathons, fests & communities
- Create & engage
- marchmetamatterschallenge is in progress. Locate, preserve, and create fannish meta (essays, timelines, concordances, maps, etc.).
- bethefirst, the annual challenge to write the first story in a fandom, is open for both sign-ups and submissions through 4/20.
- worldbuildex, an exchange focused on worldbuilding, has nominations through 3/08, sign-ups through 3/21, due 5/16.
rehome-your-fic ("Shelter for Abandoned Fics") is a project to "re-home" abandoned WIPs from an author who will never finish them to one who will. You can surrender a fic or foster a surrendered fic.
- 40daysofdrabbles is posting daily winter/spring-themed prompts through Easter.
- unsent_letters_exchange, the epistolary exchange (need not literally be letters, much less unsent), has sign-ups through 3/07, due 4/25.
- fkficfest, the annual Forever Knight event, is on for '26, with a summer due date to be announced.
- pokepodproject, the event to create a fic+podfic for every pokémon, is holding an "Unown" mini round. Sign-ups close 3/08; stories due 3/17.
- allbingo's March theme is "crafting."
- trope_of_the_month's March theme is "mirror universe."
- pinchhits is a community for posting needed fills for exchanges. For example, traumaticexperiences and au5k are currently seeking pinch hitters.
- whenisitdue tracks many more events than I note here!
- Enjoy & share
- fancake (themed fanfic recs); March theme: "siblings"
- gensplosion (gen fanfic recs)
- het_reccers (m/f fanfic recs)
- fanart_recs (fanart recs)
- recthething (fanwork recs)
Sidelight: Nintendo is suing the US government for full tariff refunds plus interest. The Switch 2 console premiered last year; shipping and stocking worldwide were affected as Nintendo raced to get units into the US for launch day before the tariffs took effect (not to mention Nintendo's profits being affected all along). As reported in TechCrunch, IGN, Polygon, etc.
Whiffle whiffle
Mar. 7th, 2026 05:16 pmoursinImagine! a good old fashioned scam without embedded link to dodgy site or anything, wow, the nostalgia is nostalgiaful, eh?
My humble greetings,
I feel the need to approach you securing and moving my late father fund. It's just My urgent need for a foreign partner/investor. I have a significant fund to transfer. My Whatsap [---] for more details
Awwwww.
This had a charming naivety lacking in yet another solicitation to become involved with some academic journal, in this case:
Given your expertise and contributions to medical and surgical research, we believe your involvement would greatly strengthen the journal’s academic quality and reputation.
It's bad enough when some predatory publisher cites My Important Work and it's actually a 500-word review, but this is above and beyond WHUT.
Plus they not only want a CV they want a photo. Tempted to send them one of the photobooth efforts I got done for passport purposes, which have 'inmate of criminal lunatic asylum, c. 1880' vibes.
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In other nostalgic news, apparently the annual eight-day Thomas Hardy fest still occurs.
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And I was utterly charmed when finally flicking through the pages of the most recent Travel Which to discover Madison WI rated one of the top less-visited North American cities (cannot find this online), bless, with particular mention of the Monoma Terrace.
Though I am honestly boggling a bit at the decision to run an article on North American cities as touristic destinations at the present time, even if a significant proportion of the actual recommendations do turn out to be in Canada.
AAM: my coworker won’t stop interfering with my service dog
Mar. 7th, 2026 09:25 ampetrea_mitchell posting in agonyauntI work in a cubicle office and bring a trained, medically necessary service dog named “Betty” to the office with me. I allow her to socialize with coworkers on breaks, and she is very loved in the office for how friendly and adorable she is. She also adores her coworkers and thinks everyone is her best friend.
Unfortunately, a new coworker, “Sarah,” has been repeatedly ignoring service dog boundaries with Betty over the last six months.
These boundary violations include taking Betty out of my cube while I’m on work calls or distracted, removing her leash in public work areas without asking, entering my cube without permission to interact with her, and petting her or interacting with her when I step away from my desk. This has started to impact Betty’s training as she’s now having separation anxiety behaviors when I leave in order to get attention. Sarah would respond to this behavior, which escalated it, despite being asked repeatedly not to.
Things were at their worst today when Sarah not only removed Betty’s leash but also attempted to remove her service dog gear. I asked her to stop but this didn’t work, and I had to physically push her hands away from Betty.
I have had multiple conversations with Sarah about her behavior with little success. When I point out a specific behavior, Sarah will then start doing a new one or find different ways to circumvent the boundary and continue her interactions with Betty. This appears to be a pattern with Sarah, as there are other areas where she struggles to incorporate feedback.
All my conversations with Sarah so far have been verbal and in the moment, as we are equals and I don’t feel it is my place to supervise her behavior. I did message my supervisor about the concerns when they started escalating and we had a one-on-one about it. My supervisor then spoke with Sarah’s supervisor about the issues and a one-on-one was had with Sarah about a month ago. Despite this, the behavior has not gotten better and seems to be getting worse.
I have had a previous negative experience with HR where I was blamed for not handling a verbally aggressive and threatening coworker with clearer boundaries before escalating to them. This time I want to make sure that I’m doing everything I can and should before I escalate things to HR again. I also don’t want to ruin the atmosphere of the office by cutting off all contact to Betty due to one coworker being unable to follow boundaries. What should I do in this instance to handle it professionally and not step on toes or upset HR?
– Trying to keep my working dog working
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Miss Manners investigates a crime
Mar. 7th, 2026 09:16 ampetrea_mitchell posting in agonyauntDEAR MISS MANNERS: I hosted a dinner party for 20 guests. Since a few of them smoke, I had arranged a separate room to function as a smoking room.
After the party, I discovered that a very small painting and a little sculpture were missing from the smoking room. Neither of them is really valuable, even sentimentally, but it still has left me very distraught.
There is no other way that these items could have disappeared except being taken by someone. Only three guests were ever in that room.
Now, what do I do? I have not mentioned this to anyone, since it undoubtedly would make everyone uncomfortable and lead to speculations about who took the things. I’d rather just forget about the whole thing, but if something similar happens in someone else’s home, I will feel guilty for not having said anything.
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Mar. 7th, 2026 06:44 pmhagar_972Look: not to say that I agree with the our Idiot PM or with his maybe-ally (I decidedly don't), but clearly the Europeans have learned nothing from their history. At all.
To say that something is Bad just because it breaks the law is... yeah. There is an Israeli saying on the matter of people who obey laws because they are laws, and I'm sure every Jewish person around here is thinking about the same historical example right now.
If the law is dumb, you change the fucking law. Humans wrote it and humans can change it. It isn't sacred. Breaking the law does not in itself make anything bad, and a hell of a whole lot of evil had been done as a result of that sort of thinking.
But Europeans be Europeans, apparently.
(Re; I'm sure this quote can be found in language other than Hebrew, too.)
I beat Dark Souls, AMA
Mar. 7th, 2026 12:15 pmrydra_wong
[ID: shot of my character from the back as she looks into the blasted ruins of the Kiln of the First Flame. She is wearing mismatched red and yellow clothes and a silver helmet, and holding a halberd.]
And it only took 8 months, and a number of hours I will not disclose. Though, to be fair, since I unexpectedly got into the multi-player, a lot of the total hours actually represent me reading a book while waiting to be summoned.
Dark Souls is slow, janky, eccentric, flawed, wilfully obscure about some of its mechanics, and one of the best games I've ever played. I am in love. Ask me anything.
“And what kind of king would Camelot want?” by klimtsonian (SFW)
Mar. 7th, 2026 06:25 amkingstoken posting in fanart_recsCharacters/Pairing/Other Subject: Arthur is the main focus with Merlin, Gwen and Morgana
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital
Artist Website/Gallery: klimtsonian
Why this piece is awesome: Lovely piece that is a little art nouveau and reminds you a little of a tarot card. The focus is on Arthur, but also hints at those behind his throne.
Link: Tumblr
The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Doctor Who icons
Mar. 7th, 2026 08:46 pmmagnavox_23 posting in icons
The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Doctor Who icons
Mar. 7th, 2026 08:37 pmmagnavox_23 posting in fandom_iconsA Conrad Veidt Community
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conradveidtA community dedicated to Conrad Veidt. Whether you are a seasoned fan, a casual fan, someone who has seen everything there is to be seen or who's just starting their journey, this community is for you!
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Every month, we shall highlight one film.
Right now, we're hosting a movie tournament.
Generally Hoary: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #50 (JLI 66)
Mar. 6th, 2026 03:51 pmtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
Today, the Greatest Generation is all but gone. The fingerprints it left on superhero comic books still linger, but we’re always interrogating what its legacy means today. But one thing was clear enough as Germany reunified: the “unreconstructed German Nazi” trope, common in comics of the 1960s, was aging out of relevance. Giffen and DeMatteis (and Medley) wanted to be the ones to lay it to rest. It would be defeated by…age itself.
( If only being a Nazi today MADE you old, like M. Night Shyamalan’s beach. )
Saturday Cooking: Apple nut pita
Mar. 7th, 2026 02:06 pmsnowynight- grated peel of one lemon
- ¾ cup sweet butter
- 7 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1¼ pounds flour
Published in Recipes from American National
Despote the name, there're no apples in the recipe.
some movies
Mar. 6th, 2026 09:04 pmsnickficThis is a surrealist late-80s comedy meditating on death and also games and numbers of various kinds, which is to say it feels very much of a piece with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, except for having no Shakespeare and being more focused on female characters. It's all nonsense; nobody is really a real person here, and that's fine. It's also pretty horny in various ways, and in fact Madgett proposes to each of the Cissies in turn. You kind of want him to succeed with one or possibly all of them.
If you want a sense of what you're in for with this movie, Madgett's introduction gives you a pretty good one.
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The Bride! (2026). Maggie Gyllenhaal directs this riff on the Frankenstein mythos, this time a sometime-musical Bonnie and Clyde story about Frankenstein's creature Frank (Christian Bale), still alive in the 1930s, and the bride (Jessie Buckley) that he talks a mad scientist into "reinvigorating" for him. The dead woman thus invigorated was a mobster's call girl, but she doesn't remember any of that anymore. Sometimes Mary Shelley talks to her for some reason.
If you get the sense from this description that this movie has a lot going on, you are correct. I would say this movie is less than the sum of its parts, but I really enjoy several of those parts. Buckley is fantastic, and Annette Bening as Doctor Euphronius is delightful. The big dance number is fun. The movie has a lot of style and is sometimes cheekily anachronistic.
The various pieces don't ever really cohere; there are too many of them. And some of the pieces I enjoyed less, like the Overboard-style plot where our revived gal thinks she's still alive and was already married to Frank before her "accident." The subplot of her being occasionally literally possessed by Mary Shelley was just baffling to me. I get that it was supposed to be thematic, but: why. But, the movie tackles all its various tones and themes with a lot of energy and verve, and overall I found a lot to enjoy.
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Send Help (2026). A frumpy woman who dreams of competing on Survivor crashlands on an island with her horrible boss.
This is a psychological thriller by Sam Raimi, and it took me a long time to go see it because ~suspense movies about people chasing each other around trying to kill each other aren't usually my thing. (See also: every home invasion movie except You're Next.) But! We don't really get that until the end, and in the meantime, Rachel McAdams is delightful as Linda Little, who's competent and helpful to a fault until she's finally pushed too far. I love how much of a glow-up Linda gets the longer they stay on the island. There were also some late developments that I really liked.
It's not breaking any new ground, but it's fun and well-executed. If you support women's wrongs(tm), I think you'll enjoy this.
Dept. of Fridays
Mar. 6th, 2026 08:37 pmkaffy_rI'm writing this with a cat on my lap. I have to periodically remind Carter that he can't grab for balance at shirt. There are breasts under there, my dude, and your claws are unwelcome. Really. But I can't bring myself to knock him off my lap. That's partly because I love him, and partly because I know it won't do much good; in a minute or two, he'll be back on my lap. I have found myself repeatedly surprised by finding him back on my lap after dumping him - I don't even notice him coming up to my lap until after he's made himself comfortable and me uncomfortable. Cats. Go figure.
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Xena Fanvids VHS Update!
Mar. 6th, 2026 10:42 pmaurumcalendulaThere's 30 fanvids on it (~2 hours of time in total)
Most don't have vidders listed.
I think it might be a mix of VCR and digital vids (there's some with effects and/or fanart included) and I think the tape is from sometime after 2001 (since there's footage of the finale in some vids).
Some (not all) have significant horizontal pink and green lines - I'm wondering if that's from the VHS or the footage in those vids (and/or a result of me initially having the VCR set on LP instead of SP).
I have a DVD-R of it recorded in LP quality and I'm recording one in SP quality.
( list of vids )
As one of life's petty problems goes
Mar. 6th, 2026 09:15 pmconuly( Read more... )
handy Dreamwidth tricks
Mar. 6th, 2026 07:37 pmsnickfic- via elasticella: If you'd like to filter by multiple tags, add them via comma with ?mode=all at the end. For example, all my recs posts also tagged with Oasis: https://snickfic.dreamwidth.org/tag/fandom:+oasis,entry:+recs?mode=all
- If you're a paid user, DW allows you to filter out specific tags by other users (for example, my "topic: politics" tag). It's just not easy to find. First you need to make an access filter and put the person on that filter, and then once they are in the filter, click on their name and all their tags will pop up.
One suggestion would be to make a filter with your entire circle in it, and then just take out the tags you don't want. Then that could be your default view of your circle.
Photos: House Yard
Mar. 6th, 2026 09:28 pmysabetwordsmith posting in common_nature( Walk with me ... )
